History As It Happens Podcast
This is a podcast for people who want to think historically about current events. History As It Happens, hosted by award-winning broadcaster Martin Di Caro, features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Recent Stories
History As It Happens: Ukraine and NATO
Talk of Ukraine joining NATO has come and gone for more than 30 years. The most recent position to wait until the war ends may not bear fruit, either.
History As It Happens: Witches no more
Connecticut's move to exonerate 12 people wrongfully accused of witchcraft in the 1600s recalls one of the most bizarre and terrifying chapters in American history.
History As It Happens: Otto and Miep
A new TV series dramatizes the loving friendship between Otto Frank and the young Dutch woman who tried to hide his family from the Nazis.
History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part three
Annette Gordon-Reed and Joseph Ellis discuss the paradoxes of the American Revolution.
History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part two
Historian Jack Rakove explains the pragmatic as well as ideological concerns that drove the final decision to break from Great Britain.
History As It Happens: Our radical Declaration, part one
Historians Sean Wilentz and Jim Oakes assess the radical idea of egalitarianism at the heart of the Revolutionary cause.
History As It Happens: Prigozhin vs. Putin
Yevgeny Prigozhin's short-lived military mutiny exposed dangerous cracks in the Putin autocracy.
History As It Happens: Ghosts of the Jeju incident
Some South Koreans say the U.S. was complicit in the bloody suppression of a left-wing uprising in the earliest years of the Cold War.
History As It Happens: The end of Trumpism? Revisited
No matter what he says, does, or is accused of, Donald Trump's popularity among Republicans remains steadfast.
History As It Happens: What happened to the two-state solution?
Four scholars argue Israel now exists as a "one-state reality" where Palestinians live in conditions akin to apartheid.
History As It Happens: Finding Imad Mughniyeh
A new Showtime series spotlights a Hezbollah leader whom most people had never heard of, but who left a bloody mark on world events.
History As It Happens: The Plumbers
A new HBO series depicts the Watergate break-in as a comedy. A renowned expert on the Nixon tapes weighs in.
History As It Happens: After D-Day
The central place of the invasion of Normandy in popular memory overshadows the enormous difficulties and utter brutality encountered by the Allies after June 6, 1944.
History As It Happens: From Grozny to Bakhmut
Russia's destruction of Ukrainian cities is evoking eerie memories of the massive violence of the Chechen Wars.
History As It Happens: Constitutional myths
A major scholar of the founding era says Americans revere their Constitution while laboring under myths about its meaning.
History As It Happens: Kissinger and Cambodia
As the sage of American diplomats celebrates his 100th birthday, the debate rages over his record in Southeast Asia.
History As It Happens: King's socialism
Martin Luther King's philosophy saw racism, materialism, and militarism as interrelated problems. So why is his criticism of American capitalism overlooked today?
History As It Happens: U.S. hegemony and multipolarity in Asia
American allies are in a difficult spot between a rising China and a U.S. intent on maintaining its primacy.
History As It Happens: From Saddam to the sanctions
An Iraqi native who now works as a professional peace builder reflects on life under Saddam Hussein and the devastating economic sanctions on the 1990s.
History As It Happens: From Khrushchev's gamble to Putin's hubris
Vladimir Putin thinks himself a student of history. Two historians of the Soviet Era say he's missing the lesson from a defining moment.
